1974 in Iceland

The following lists events that happened in 1974 in Iceland.

Incumbents

• President – Kristján Eldjárn
• Prime Minister – Ólafur Jóhannesson, Geir Hallgrímsson

Events

• Geirfinnur case

Births

• 25 February – Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, actress
• 27 March – Kristján Helgason, snooker player
• 2 May – Garðar Thór Cortes, singer
• 6 May – Birkir Hólm Guðnason, business leader
• 13 June – Selma Björnsdóttir, actress and singer
• 11 July – Hermann Hreiðarsson, footballer
• 3 September – Guðmundur Benediktsson, footballer.
• 17 September – Helgi Sigurðsson, footballer

Full date missing

• Guðmundur Þór Kárason, puppet designer and puppeteer

Deaths

• 4 March – Guðni Jónsson, professor of history and editor of Old Norse texts (b. 1901)
• 20 April – Guðmundur Guðmundsson, chess player (b. 1918)
• 21 September – Sigurður Nordal, scholar, writer and ambassador (b. 1876)
• 8 November – Sesselja Sigmundsdottir, pioneer in the fields of pedagogy and the care for the mentally disabled (b 1902)
• 12 November – Þórbergur Þórðarson, author and Esperantist (b. 1888 or 1889)

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